A 32-year-old man named David Shodola, who was thought to be mentally ill, allegedly beheaded an 84-year-old citizen named Alfred Opadipe on Friday and caused chaos in the town of Ipara in Ogun State’s Remo-North Local Government Area.
However, the’madman’ was fatally shot by state police command members when he allegedly resisted arrest.
A nine-minute-and-eight-second video clip shows the octogenarian’s dead corpse on the ground with the head a short distance away went viral on Friday.
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Some locals were observed assembling at the scene to witness the horrific event.
An eyewitness, who spoke in the clip, revealed that the victim was killed by a “madman”.
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The state Police Public Relations Officer, Omotola Odutola, confirmed the incident in a terse statement in Abeokuta on Friday.
Odutola said the command received a distress call from an informant on the matter as policemen, led by the Isara Divisional Police Officer, CSP Bankole Eluyeru, were deployed in the scene.
She said, “The Divisional Police Isara, CSP Bankole Eluyeru, made an attempt to arrest the suspect, but he used the machete on the DPO and his men. The police succeeded in neutralising the suspect and the weapon was recovered from him.”
Odutola, however, said there was no recount of the suspect being mentally ill from the intelligence the police gathered.
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